Robotics Research Engineer: Foundation Models (Singapore)

General Robotics; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

General Robotics is seeking Research Engineers to develop foundation models for GRID, spanning model architecture, large-scale training, reinforcement learning, simulation, and evaluation to build robotic behaviors that generalize across tasks, environments, and embodiments. We value exceptional depth in one or more relevant areas; candidates are not expected to have experience across all of them.

The Singapore team collaborates with the US team on GRID research and development, visiting for

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, or related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• Research or applied experience in machine learning, robotics, or computer vision.
• Strong Python programming skills and experience with PyTorch.
• Experience developing and evaluating machine-learning models or robotics algorithms.
• Experience with at least one robotics simulation platform.
• Familiarity with inverse kinematics, dynamics, and robotic manipulation.
• Demonstrated research ability through publications, substantial contributions, or equivalent industry work.
• Must obtain and maintain work authorization in the country of employment.

Responsibilities

• Formulate research hypotheses and design rigorous experiments informed by deployment needs.
• Develop and scale foundation models for robotic perception and action.
• Leverage simulation and diverse datasets for pretraining, post-training, reinforcement learning, and evaluation.
• Scale existing simulation platforms for data generation and reinforcement learning across heterogeneous scenes and tasks.
• Advance generalization beyond demonstrated tasks and robust spatial understanding.
• Improve sim-to-real transfer and reliability under real-world deployment constraints.
• Develop Auto-Engineering methods for scalable and robust deployment.
• Implement, evaluate, and clearly communicate research as reusable, production-quality work.

Skills

Python programming

PyTorch

Robotics

Computer vision

ML research

Robotics simulation

Inverse kinematics

Publications/Research

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Robotics/related field

MS or PhD in ML/Robotics/CS

Tools

NVIDIA Isaac Sim

MuJoCo

Job description

General Robotics is seeking Research Engineers to develop foundation models for GRID, spanning model architecture, large-scale training, reinforcement learning, simulation, and evaluation to build robotic behaviors that generalize across tasks, environments, and embodiments. We value exceptional depth in one or more relevant areas; candidates are not expected to have experience across all of them.

The Singapore team collaborates with the US team on GRID research and development, visiting for